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Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.

Time is a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.

It has been said that time is used by the universe to ensure that everything doesn't happen all at once.

It has also been said that: "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." Not everyone agrees on the nature of time, and time is not fully understood even today.

Because human time perception can be wildly inaccurate, and many system services rely on the close synchronization of clocks, we have specialized clocks do the measurement of time for us. On the Internet, data from these clocks is made available via .

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Why did w32tm /resync cause it to correct itself, then overshoot?

Background: My LAN's Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller had been running without any external time server for a few years and I finally synchronized it now. It had been running about 2 minutes behind what it should be. Here's the command-line…
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How to do proper VPS timekeeping?

I'm configuring a VPS to log some time-series online data and I notice that the time is off. I'd like to have better than 10 second precision on this. I read somewhere that VPS timekeeping is different than on native (x86) systems because the error…
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Is PTP really more precise than NTP? If so, why?

I have read quite a bit about NTP and PTP time keeping protocols. While many sources claim that PTP is more precise than NTP for that type of granularity - the reason is not as clear. Why can't NTP be just as accurate if a stratum 0 reference clock…
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Does NT5DS time synchronization have any place in a mixed Windows / Linux environment?

I am working on a plan towards overhauling how time synchronization is handled on our network. Currently our network is predominantly Windows-based, in a fairly standard AD domain broken up into various sites. However we are starting to utilize…
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How do you manually trigger the first sync for 'Internet Time' in Windows?

When launching a Windows Instance on AWS I'd like to trigger the "Internet Time" to be updated via the command line (powershell or cmd). If I go to "Adjust date/time" and select the "Internet Time" tab I see "This computer is set to automatically…
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ntpdate not updating system time in XenServer VM

We have a Debian webserver that I am trying to use ntpdate to keep the time in sync. When I run ntpdate ntp0.cs.mu.oz.au I receive 16 Sep 10:55:36 ntpdate[21626]: step time server 128.250.36.2 offset 318.914011 sec With no errors, which should be…
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Time synchronization and scheduled tasks

If NTP runs at 10:59:55, and fixes the time to 11:00:13, does chron run the 11:00:00, and *:00:00 tasks, or are they skipped? Alternately, if NTP runs at 11:00:00 and fixes the time to 10:59:48, do these tasks run twice? If they are skipped, what…
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CentOS keeps losing its localtime setting?

I'm running an extremely typical CentOS 6.5 server at DigitalOcean. As part of the site setup, I've changed /etc/localtime to something appropriate for me: rm /etc/localtime ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime This works…
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How to stop time synchronization on an Azure VM

I'm trying to simulate a different date/time on an Azure VM but the time keeps resetting itself to the current date/time. Is there a way to force the server to stay at a specific date/time until I manually change it back? I have disabled the…
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How to measure boot time?

I was wondering what is the "proper" or "most significant" way in which to measure the boot time of a client machine: From turn on to login prompt From turn on to login prompt (HDD light off) From turn on to browser open (HDD light off) From turn…
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Ntpd excessively inaccurate

I have ntpd set up (Meinberg ntp-4.2.6p5@london version for Windows on a Windows 7 client) with a bunch of nearby servers selected for low ping times (usually 10-20ms ping). However it seems my clock is only accurate to within 100ms or less, and it…
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How do I make all Xen guests use their host clock value?

I've set up Xen server under Linux with several guests running, and all was well. After some time I've noticed the clock on the server drifted away, so I installed 'ntpd', and the clock was back to normal. However, my Xen guests still had the old…
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Apache HTTPD process cumulative cpu time

How can I aggregate all Apache HTTPD processes' CPU time usage to be able to compare them with other running processes' (MySQL, Java, ...)? Or how much CPU time does HTTPD needs compared to MySQL for example? "ps --cumulative", "top -S", "pidstat -T…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 time keeps changing unexpectedly

There is a serious problem with one of my servers time. At some random hours (5:59 localtime in the following example) it goes 1 hour back and keeps doing this again and again next times it reaches 5:59. Like this: 5:59->4:59 … 5:59-> 4:59 and so…
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Windows time command equivalent

There is a command in Linux that outputs system utilization called time. Is there a Windows equivalent? Or how else can I manually use the task manager commands in a batch file?
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